UALBANY MOVES INTO THE 8TH SEED IN THE AMERICA EAST TOURNAMENT

Binghamton President Lois DeFleur announced in today's press conference, "With the controversy currently surrounding the program it is not appropriate we play in this year's post-season,”. Without Binghamton in the tournament who was to be the 5th seed, the seeding for tournament has changed drastically. This nullifies the play-in game which would have been between UAlbany and UMBC scheduled for Thursday. Now all 8 teams participating will play on Saturday. The games being played on Saturday will be:

#1 Stony Brook vs. # 8 UAlbany (12:00 pm)
#4 Boston vs. #5 Hartford (2:15 pm)
#2 Vermont vs. #7 UMBC (6:00 pm)
#3 Maine vs. #6 New Hampshire (8:15 pm)

The new seeding helps UAlbany stay fresh and guarantees them a game against Stony Brook instead of having to play for a chance at a third meeting. Although UAlbany has lost to all their opponents in the America East aside from UMBC, they have played particularly well against Stony Brook. In their first meeting, Stony Brook won by 6 points in a very close game at Stony Brook. In the second meeting at SEFCU Arena, Stony Brook's Muhammad El-Amin hit a jump shot over Billy Allen with 1.8 seconds left on the clock to put Stony Brook up 2 and eventually win the game.

UAlbany has a good chance at pulling another huge upset in the tournament. Last year, UAlbany was the 7th seed, and pulled off an entertaining overtime victory against #2 seeded Vermont.

UALBANY MEN CLOSE OUT THE REGULAR SEASON IN OVERTIME

UALBANY men's basketball finished the regular season today with an overtime loss to Hartford despite a great effort by Will Harris who finished the game with 26 points, 4 rebounds, 3 assists, 1 block and 1 steal.

The game was evenly played from the beginning tip. With Albany down 4 with a couple seconds left to go in the first half, Billy Allen drained a three pointer at the buzzer to end the half.

In the second half, Will Harris's stellar play kept the Dane's afloat. With 12 seconds left in the second half, with the score 72-70 in Albany's favor, Hartford junior Anthony Minor was fouled by Brett Gifford. The foul sent Minor, a 61% foul shooter to the line for a 1-and-1. Minor made the two free throws and knotted the game up at 72. Will Harris shot a well contested NBA range three pointer that came up short. In the overtime period, Hartford went an early 6-0 run that Albany never recovered from and was outscored 7 to 13 at the end of the extra period, leaving a final score of, Hartford, 85, Albany 79.

The Great Danes will be traveling back to Hartford for the America East Conference Tournament on Thursday, where they will play UMBC in the first game of the tournament. Albany has their only two conference wins against UMBC, which favors them in their third meeting.